The Trials of Darryl Hunt

"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" last night, with Yellow, who was nice enough to drive at the last minute, and Dimmi. It was glorious.

The movie was amazing. I learned so much. It was about a black man wrongly convicted for the murder and rape of a white woman in North Carolina in 1984. He was exhonerated and released from jail when they found the right guy in 2004, 19 years later.

-It kind of made me wonder why I don't do more important things with my time. (Not things that are more important - why aren't more of the things I do, more important.)
-you can't really compare yourself with that type of thing all the time. the little things often ARE important.
-this man suffered loads of horrible things over the course of 19 years. Christ only suffered in the Atonement sense for a week, and he still understands everything and more that this man went through.
-Nature vs. nurture. The man probably avoided a lot of problems, messes and setbacks in his life by being put away for the most immature years, but he showed the purity of his core by his reaction to the whole situation - no bitterness, resentment, etc.

Way more. Update more when I get time to sit down and think about it more. but whew! It was very well-made and amazingly objective, too - they started working on it before the big conclusion of the third and final trial, so it wasn't directed against one side or the other. It presented the facts (a gaping hole in the trial itself the whole time) and the mistakes, but in a very clear fashion, without a lot of emotionalism or sensationalism.

Q&A with one of the directors afterward was quite insightful as well. The kicker is that it's all REAL. wow.

Any takers, the next one is December 7th.

Feel free to comment, especially if you saw it and want to add.